The abiding legacy of a trailblazing entrepreneur of intravenous therapy

According
to
family
lore,
Ralph
Falk,
M.D.,
a
physician
and
surgeon
who
practiced
in
Boise,
Idaho
in
the
early
to
mid-20th
century,
was
nothing
if
not
inventive.
His
daughter-in-law,
Suzanne
McDonough,
recalls
Falk
telling
her
of
an
emergency
operation
he
performed
during
the
1920s
at
a
home
in
a
remote
mountainous
area
where
he
and
a
friend
had
gone
fishing.
“They
had
to
hang
a
mirror
over
the
patient’s
kitchen
table
in
order
to
reflect
Dr.
Falk’s
automobile
lights
so
he
could
see
well
enough...

Out & About

January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.

Keynote speaker Gerald Friedland, M.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology and director of the AIDS program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, described his two decades of experience treating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in New York, New Haven, and South Africa.

January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.

Valerie A. Ceva, M.B.A., of consulting firm The Strategic Choice, with Paul R. Pescatello, J.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE).

January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel, Eugene O’Neill Professor and chair of the Yale School of Drama’s department of playwrighting, is greeted by Gordon Edelstein, Long Wharf’s artistic director and director of “Coming Home.”

January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.

January 22: New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre hosted GLOBAL HEALTH & THE ARTS. The event combined a world premiere performance of award-winning South African playwright Athol Fugard’s “Coming Home” with a symposium on scientific, technological, and economic aspects of conquering infectious disease in developing countries.

William H. Prusoff, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology and co-discoverer of the anti-HIV drug Zerit, with David I. Scheer, president of Scheer and Company, Long Wharf Theatre Trustee, and organizer of the event.

April 4: At the Department of Psychiatry’s 2009 neuroscience symposium, “Recovery Across the Lifecycle,” famed talk show host and New York Times blogger Dick Cavett (right) received the department’s annual MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH ADVOCACY AWARD. John H. Krystal, M.D. (left), the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research and deputy chair for research, presented the award to Cavett, a member of the Yale College Class of 1958, for his openness about his lifelong battle with clinical depression in his writings, interviews, and speeches, and for informing the public of the many treatment options available to patients who suffer from depression.

February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.

Odayme Quesada and Mona Sadghepour.

February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.

With support from dancer Yehoda Martei (left), Matthew Singleton portrayed anatomy professor Lawrence J. Rizzolo, Ph.D., in a number called “My Goodies/Rizzilicious,” based on Ciara and Petey Pablo’s “My Goodies” and Fergie’s “Fergilicious.”

February 19: Continuing a 60-year-old tradition, the School of Medicine’s Class of 2011 put on the annual SECOND YEAR SHOW, a satirical musical revue, in Harkness Auditorium. This year’s offering, “The Great ST Depression,” presented an exaggerated version of the nation’s current fiscal crisis: facing a deflated endowment, layoffs, and a drop in financial aid, faculty and students must come up with creative ways to earn money. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H., M.D.; Dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine Robert J. Alpern, M.D.; and Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, were played by Larissa Chiulli, Derek Kennedy, and Lauren Hackney, respectively, and all received considerable skewering.

Adam Kaufman, Mei Elansary, Henry Park, and Lauren Graber in a sketch in which students get part-time jobs at S’wings, a Crown Street eatery.